CFP: European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy: Pragmatism and Creativity
Submission deadline: November 1, 2012
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The creative process is immensely important for any inquiry. In the
sciences perspective it functions in the path of discovery, decisive in
selecting a new hypothesis. In the arts, creativity's pivotal role is
evident. But in our everyday experience, as Dewey pointed out,
creativity is what describes our best acts in social relationships, in
education, and in jobs of every kind. The web of images, languages and
actions bends itself through the continuous insertion of new, creative,
information. There can be creativity also in habitual works, where
creativity is crucial for enhancing real satisfaction.
Philosophers often pigeon-hole creativity in the aesthetic or
psychological realms. Classic Pragmatists tended toward a more
comprehensive pattern of reasoning in which creativity could enter. From
Peirce’s abduction to Mead’s relationship between Self and I,
pragmatists contemplated a series of different and often problematic
views of creativity. Certainly, they stressed the importance of creative
processes in different aspects of life, abolishing the gap between
scientific and non-scientific realms. Their anti-dualist attitude forbid
any pigeon-holing, but their positive answer to the dilemma of what
creativity is, and what its fields and boundaries are, remained quite
obscure.
This issue of the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
wants to investigate the perspectives that pragmatisms, old and new,
opens up on creativity. We will welcome any contribution on this topic
that will (i) clarify classic or neo pragmatists thought on creativity,
or (ii) use pragmatist insights in other disciplines, particularly in
mathematics and sciences, or (iii) compare pragmatist views with authors
and perspectives belonging to other philosophical streams, or (iv)
propose new theories inspired by pragmatism. Contributions related to
the dialectics between plastic reason and exact imagination, closer to
Peirce's pragmaticism and oriented to an understanding of multilayered
creativity, will be considered of central interest.
Papers should be sent to Marco Stango ([email protected])
before November 1st 2012. Papers should not exceed 7,000 words and must
include an abstract of 200-400 words and a list of works cited. Papers
will be selected on the basis of a process of blind review. Acceptance
of papers will be determined before February 1st, 2013. Papers will be
published on July 1st, 2013.